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Just a tip to squeeze more power from your DAW
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sy000321
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Posted : Jun 9, 2005 14:31
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recently the complexity of my tracks has made me wish for a new PC or some wealthy upgrades but since i'm saving to do a brutal one (going 64 bits) i'm always searching for quick tips and discovered the fact that if you change your display settings to use only the fewest colors you feel confortable with (or your display adapter allows) at the same resolution you'll get better cpu performance
so simple it almost hurts
for me it was just switching from 32bits to 16bits color to be able to use some "reserve power" and come closer to finish my tracks
different setups will behave differently, off course 
joao
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sy000321
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Posted : Jun 9, 2005 16:46
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yeah... my vst host doesn't allow all that hi-tech stuff :and i'm too lazy to do it by hand...
i'm with XP 2100+ and 256 megs DDR so i think i'm pushing it a bit to the limit.
what really eats my cpu is the maudio 44 inputs when i use external shit 
and i see no difference between 16 and 32 bit colors in my host wich is cool too(16bits = 65536 colors )
soon dual 1g and amd 64bits... hopefully
what do you mean by offline FX? roll a joint or STFU :) |
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sy000321
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Posted : Jun 9, 2005 17:04
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yeah... bouncing stuff isn't it?
i can do it with FL but by hand (exporting that vst to wav)
but i keep changing stuff, many times 'til the final version, the notes, the rihtm, everything...
and i like to go mixing along...
maybe that's the way i work
off course when i feel the track is finished i can export exerything as audio in separate trackes an do a more complex mix in cubase or another host...
i've done it for some stuff already, it's a very lenghty process, but real helps to give a final polish to everything...
and i always do changes at that point too
joao
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sy000321
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Posted : Jun 9, 2005 17:10
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hmmm... one day i'll switch to sx2 or 3
i promise
my approach is more like multi-track mixing... works to a point... roll a joint or STFU :) |
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sy000321
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Posted : Jun 9, 2005 17:31
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you're right about FL being loop oriented...
...it takes a bit of time, pratice and effort to get out of that frame of mind
mostly it would be the biggest reason for me to work with another host not loop oriented.
i'm already working with cubase and hope to use it more in the future
but it's still my tool of choice since it takes time to get used to such complicated stuff and when you get stuck in a project the first thing you remember is how easy it would be to do it in the host you're more familiar with 
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z1P^
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Posted : Jun 10, 2005 12:17
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just pull out the case's cover out, get a floor fan closer to your sistem, pull the FSB some mhz up from your bios and test your system stability with the following tool:
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=36 (1mb test) while monitoring your system temperature http://www.almico.com/speedfan424.exe
if it is cool and stable, up some more mhz.
(not responsible of any harm done to your system )
more overclocking performance can be achieved by buying a better heatsink and cooler for your CPU and nb chipset, also adding a good thermal compound between the chips and heatsinks.
happy overclocking
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YANTRA
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Posted : Jun 14, 2005 19:13
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On 2005-06-09 17:26, nolightatend wrote:
It is not as hard as it seems! Just find friend who use Cubase for a while, after month you will know everyhting you need to know and will flow with work much faster than in Fruity Loops.
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I dont think so. I hv a amd 2.4ghz with 512ram 400mhz, 80gb hd, gforce 4 128mb videocard and soundblaster soundcard. The thing is, I can work with Flstudio, even with lots of cpu overload when i am about to finish the track, but even with problems i can go up to the end. BUT with cubase, i cant even load 50% of the vstis i was using in flstudio and things start to get buggy. I moved from flstudio to cubase like 6 months ago but i coundnt drop flstudio yet, cause it works smoother then cubase. I can never finish a track in cubase, even freezing the fucking vstis (almost all). I tried lots of things, like: different drivers, upgrade in my system, different versions but nothing work. The next thing i will do is buy a pro soundcard and see if my problem get fixed. If it still not work, then i will take my pc to a specialist and ask him to review my pc cause something must be wrong. I also want to buy a real copy of cubase, but i am really afraid to spend my money and things dont get better. If none of those thing resolve my problems i gues i will kill myself (kidding)
Serious, i am very frustaded with this situation, i hv never thought i would hv so many challenges to reach the stable system to produce. I really like cubase. It has some features that really makes work MUCH easier then in flstudio, live the way we can deal with the automation curves.. but this difficult to get it stable is driving me crazy.
SO, sy000321,
I Honestly advice u to stay on flstudio until u get the perfect system. If u already hv system problems with flstudio, then in cubase u will probabily hv the double of problems hehe, if u know what i mean.
Start to learn using it and stay upgrading your system. Cubase at the first moment seens not so intuitive as flstudio, but after a while u will see how things can get good there. Killer program, i hope i dont take to long so start enjoying this sequencer with stability and pleasure.
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S7a5
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Posted : Jun 15, 2005 12:35
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you may overclock your cpu and ram
Personally I have a special windows account only for studio works where everything is set up to save resources. Another method is to export loops as audio files and stuff them into the multitrack, saves tons of resources
You can always adjust your performance by going to System Properties>Advanced tab in Windows XP
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YANTRA
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Posted : Jun 15, 2005 16:27
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I hv seen those tips from xpmusic.net but i didnt see difference in the performance..
Hey nolightatend,
The freeze function also sucks with me. Maybe this off line proccess method is what i am looking for. Does it work for VSTis too?
"Second of all, never use 512ddr for DAW on Winxp. Only XP requers half of your ram to function. "
Do you mean that 512ddr ram is not enought?
I used to hv 2 ddr 256mb very old ones and i just upgraded to this 512mb 400mhz sansung(I just didnt buy two because i didnt hv enought money hehe). The thing is that i didnt see any difference with this change. Someone told me that if i buy another memory chip (512ddr 400mhz) then my problem will get solved, cause my motherboard is asus a7n8x-x and it has "dual channel", that is something that will increase my memory to the double off the power.. is that relevant to music production?
Is sansung a good memory chip? There is another one called kingston(also 512ddr 400mhz) that is much more expensive then the one i hv.. Does it hv any difference between those two performances provided by each company or it is just price?
Just one more, what does DAW means ?? (sorry HEHE)
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